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KASAMA 2008
March 2008 (Volume 22 Number 1)
Walking Together for Peace and Reconciliation
Networking Religious Congregations to Eliminate Human Trafficking
WHAT NOW — SORRY HAS BEEN SAID
The Negros Nine Organic Farm
DIDIPIO UPDATE
DIDIPIO: Exploitation or Business?
Big Sorry Day by Deborah Ruiz Wall
BURRAAY - Dreaming Them Home
Let the healing begin
Urgent reform to Indigenous policy and service delivery needed
Resistances and Actions Summarise Women’s Month
Islamic New Year: Why Ahmad and Sarah matter in 2008
Milan: Film Review by Natasha Saroca
Bayan Ko
Refugee Week
Working Against Trafficking in Persons
KASAMA 2007
December 2007 (Volume 21 Number 4)
Differences Melt Away in Aboriginal and Filipino Women Story Sharing in Fairfield
Invisible Realities, Forgotten Voices: The Women on Death Row
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions finds the military is killing leftist activists in The Philippines
‘Heed Alston recommendations or risk further embarrassment, government told’
Astronomy By Jasmine Khan
Ruling is a victory for Philippine children, says WHO
Walk for Land, Walk for Justice
A Mother's Long Walk for Justice
Sumilao Farmers Press Conference
5th UITBB meeting for Asia and the Pacific
Hospitalised guest worker faces deportation
Women, Faith and a Culture of Peace
September 2007 (Volume 21 Number 3)
United Nations adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Global Indigenous Caucus: Statement by the Chairman, Les Malezer
Aboriginal groups disappointed with Government’s United Nations vote
UN Declaration a milestone for Indigenous Peoples
HardLabourStolenWages
1st International Conference on Cordillera Studies
Commonwealth Ombudsman’s 10 Lessons for Public Administration
The Old Struggle for Human Rights, New Problems Posed by Security
Bohol Dreaming
Front door, back door: seascapes and the Australian psyche
Crossing Cultures - telling Australia’s Indigenous-Asian story
Recommitting to multiculturalism by Tom Calma
Storytelling around the dining table
Living under Civil Laws and Religious “Laws” in Australia: Conflict or Harmony?
June 2007 (Volume 21 Number 2)
Philippines Elections 2007: A regime hell-bent on remaining in power is capable of doing almost anything
Philippines Elections 2007: A CLIMATE OF RESIGNATION, FRAUD AND VIOLENCE
Philippines Elections 2007: Compact 2007 International Observers Mission Group Recommendations
Philippines Elections 2007: Report from an International Election Observer in Cotabato City Dr Lesley Clark
Philippines Elections 2007: ROT IN THE SYSTEM by Lawrence Surendra
Philippines Elections 2007: Negros Occidental — Sugar and Philippine Politics
DEATH OR GLORY
Political Caucus of Women Leaders in Mindanao is Launched
The Pigram Brothers: a top Aboriginal band talk about their Filipino heritage
Howard’s New Tampa – Aboriginal Children Overboard
Giving Face to the Desaparecidos
Film shows ‘trafficking’ of Pinoy workers to Iraq has an American face
Racism Report Released
March 2007 (Volume 21 Number 1)
The Significance of International Women’s Day to Filipino Women Migrant Workers by Edna Aquino
Women’s Day marchers denounce police brutality on women’s rally!
PINOY TV for the Filipino Australian Community
Extrajudicial killings have a corrosive effect on civil society and political discourse…by Philip Alston
On the Brutal Killing of the Most Reverend Alberto B. Ramento, the Ninth IFI Obispo Maximo - A Statement of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente
Dialogue Among Faiths and Civilizations in the Asia-Pacific Region: Hopeful Signs, Urgent Challenges
Sharing our Stories Around the Dining Table: Aboriginal and Filipino Women
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal - Second Session on the Philippines - The Hague, the Netherlands - March 21-25, 2007
Philippines: Crucial Mid-Term Elections in May by Lorraine Salazar in Asian Analysis
Trapo Parties and Corruption by Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
Upcoming Events
KASAMA 2006
December 2006 (Volume 20 Number 4)
Extreme Weather Events
IWSS celebrates its 20th anniversary by Heather Nancarrow
Interpreters: Policy and Practice by Ana Maria Allimant Holas
Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation by Shirley Woods
The Power of Persuasion in Visual Imagery by Sasi Victoire
‘Two-way Learning’: Yolngu clan at Australia’s Top End shows the way by Deborah Ruiz Wall
Read Meet Eat Talk
Some Are Smarter Than Others
Update: Vivian Alvarez Solon
LHMU News
International Human Solidarity Day
September 2006 (Volume 20 Number 3)
Didipio Says
No
To Mining
The Cordillera Conservation Trust
Greenpeace Protest Against Australian Mining Company on Rapu-Rapu Island
Bayan Muna and KMU speakers tour Australia
‘Human Rights: Philippines’
Philippines: Political Killings, Human Rights And The Peace Process
Issues and Problems in Filipino-Australian Marriages
'Evil husband' action thrown out
LHMU News
Recovering the stolen wages
A Celebration with a Difference
June 2006 (Volume 20 Number 2)
People of Colours
Poems of Possibilities, Passions and Politics
Keep Him My Heart: A Larrakia-Filipino Love Story
SOS SMS FOR OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS IN DISTRESS
Making Dreams Come True in the Philippines: Helping Children Smile Inc.
We were the babies of the Second Vatican Council
IGO: Igorot Global Organization
17 Church People Killed
LHMU News
New Publications
Daniel Boone Schirmer
Students Of Sustainability: National Environment Conference
March 2006 (Volume 20 Number 1)
Arroyo declares a 7-day State of National Emergency
Police attack women’s march on the way to Mendiola
Not Just Another Rally
AKBAYAN and Alliance For Progressive Labor file charges against Philippine National Police before Quezon City Court, The Ombudsman And Commission On Human Rights
Military Intervention: Definitely a Cure Worse than the Disease by Walden Bello
Didipio Community Files Case Against DENR & Mining Companies
VIVIAN SOLON’S compensation case goes to arbitration
STILL WAITING: the need for culture change in the Department of Immigration
OFWs Exploited in Canberra Restaurant Trade
The Trafficking Visa Regime - how effective is it likely to be?
How Multiculturalism Destroyed Barbie's Love Life By Shakira Hussein
ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING! STOP SLAVERY
KASAMA 2005
December 2005 (Volume 19 Number 4)
Vivian Returns to Australia
Justice still in detention
Support OFW Issues
Culture of Migration
Cultivating Widom - Harvesting Peace
Commemorative Book
A There is more to Mackay than sun, sea and sugarcane
Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Tradition in focus at Manila Conference
Filipino Stories in Australia
Filipino Stories In Hawai'i
News from CATW-AP
Fair Trade has spiritual roots doing justice for all the poor
6th Igorot International Consultation
Women Say No To War
SR. MARIANI DIMARANAN, SFIC passed away on December 17, 2005 at 81 years of age
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S DAY LAUNCH OF COALITION BLOG
September 2005 (Volume 19 Number 3)
Bring Vivian Home
August 27, 2005: Tampa Day Commemoration
September 7, 2005: National Day of Action for Vivian Solon
Cultivating Widom - Harvesting Peace
A Lesson on Clan Conflict Resolution in the Philippines
Education For Life, From Life: Lessons to be learnt from a strong indigenous tribe in the Philippines
The Life of Street Children in the Philippines and Initiatives to Help Them
Telling the truth and getting away with it By Sheila Coronel
WOMAN IN DANGER OR DANGEROUS WOMAN?
"Racisms in the New World Order: Realities of Culture, Colour and Identity"
June 2005 (Volume 19 Number 2)
ECCV calls for a Royal Commission into deportation
Australian Citizen Deported: Vivian Alvarez Solon 'removed' to the Philippines
STATEMENT FROM A COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS CONCERNING THE DEPORTATION OF VIVIAN ALVAREZ SOLON YOUNG
VIVIAN SOLON: The Face That Shamed Australia
Protesters March for Refugee Rights
Negotiations Stall
Royal Commission Now!
Deporting citizens shows an immigration policy gone mad by Fr. Shay Cullen
Pagbabalik / Returning
Women In Asia Conference
Throwaway Drink Pouches Turn to Gold by Fr. Shay Cullen
H. WILFRID WALKER’S TALES OF TRAVEL IN THE PHILIPPINES (PART THREE)
Trafficking in Women: Where to from here?
March 2005 (Volume 19 Number 1)
Activists World-wide Come Together at WSF 2005
A Unique Space for Collective Reflection, Visioning and Action
Filipinas speak up at UN women’s meet
Japan’s new rules provoke differing views from NGOs
An update on Swagman
Left Labor in bed with the sex industry
6th Igorot International Consultation
Cordillera Cultural Heritage Collections in Australia by Dee Dicen Hunt
Women, Citizenship and the Politics of Dress in Twentieth-Century Philippines
H. WILFRID WALKER’S TALES OF TRAVEL IN THE PHILIPPINES (PART TWO)
MULTICULTURAL DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE WORKSHOPS
Women As Peacemakers - Social Weather Stations survey
KASAMA 2004
December 2004 (Volume 18 Number 4)
Hacienda Luisita: Striking Workers Massacred
Killing of poor farmers typifies Philippine social injustice
Death Toll For Journalists Highest In Decade
Everybody’s Fight
Arundhati Roy, Sydney Peace Prize winner inspires Australians to fight for non violence
Breaking Promises, Making Profits: Mining in the Philippines
Dr. Alfred J. Ganapin
H. WILFRID WALKER’S TALES OF TRAVEL IN THE PHILIPPINES
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 2004 REPORT
In Court
MULTICULTURAL DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE WORKSHOPS
Celebration of Women 2005 Calendar
September 2004 (Volume 18 Number 3)
Imperial Amnesia
The Forbidden Book
The World (Record) According to Jay Leno
Filipinos rally against Downer’s insults
AKBAYAN denounces reckless Aussie government remarks
ON THE SIDE OF EMPIRE? BY HERBERT DOCENA
Old Commitments, New Struggles Mark Asia Pacific NGO Forum Opening
NGO Women Discuss Gains Made Over the Past 10 Years and Address Emerging Global Issues
The Personal, Political, Social and Economic Scrutinised in AP NGO Day 3
Women Take Home New Skills, Commitments From Asia–Pacific NGO Forum
AP NGO Forum Mini–Film Festival Celebrated Women Filmmakers
Australian Diplomacy like ‘a bull in a china shop’
“Towards a Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in a Global Economy”
June 2004 (Volume 18 Number 2)
Philippine Elections 2004
Compact For Peaceful Elections: Press Release May 14, 2004
Change Or Continuity? - Insights From Amando Doronila
The Alternative Party-List System Is Thriving
Voting by post: one Pinoy’s U.K. experience
The OAV Law: Defend and Amend, Guarantee Its Continued Exercise
Shaping the Future of Filipino Labor Migration
Reconciliation: a restorative process that truly heals
The Priest as a Prophet – Fr. Niall O’Brien
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism (PART FOUR)
Conferences in Australia & the Philippines
March 2004 (Volume 18 Number 1)
Paying for Servitude: Trafficking in Women for Prostitution in Australia
New Publications
Communities Dreaming
Social Watch Philippines – Media Release – March 5, 2004
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism (PART THREE)
Send an Unhappy Birthday Card to the IMF and World Bank
Mathematics in Tribal Philippines and Other Societies in the South Pacific
KASAMA 2003
December 2003 (Volume 17 Number 4)
Gamelan Pinoy Style
Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act (Philippines)
Articles on Sex Trafficking a Standout Winner
OAV Registration
Justice Sought From The Lines Of A Song
The First Mob: Scenes From The Front Lines
Promoting Our Cultural Heritage
The Call of the Mountains
Philippine President Lifts Moratorium On Death Penalty
Colonial Name, Colonial Mentality and Ethnocentrism (PART TWO)
Child prisoners accuse GMA and top officials
Children in Australian Immigration Detention Centres
To Suffer Thy Comrades
Steven Fraser Convicted of Murdering His 3 Children
September 2003 (Volume 17 Number 3)
